Sentence examples for effect of the comprehension from inspiring English sources

Experiment 1 tested the effect of the comprehension differences on viewers' eye movements while watching the film clip.

To our knowledge, this result demonstrates for the first time that articulatory motor cortex can exert a causal effect on the comprehension of single meaningful spoken words.

Because a crucial aspect of the present study is the comparison of effects within the comprehension modality to between-modality effects, we opted to manipulate syntactic priming while always repeating the verb between prime and target sentence.

Unlike Graham et al. (2008), we did conduct a listening strategies instruction; that is why our study is in the line of (McGruddy: The effect of listening comprehension strategy training with advanced level ESL students (Doctoral dissertation, Georgetown University, Washington DC), unpublished) and Vandergrift and Tafaghodtari (2010).

In this regard, (McGruddy: The effect of listening comprehension strategy training with advanced level ESL students (Doctoral dissertation, Georgetown University, Washington DC), unpublished) used a questionnaire in order to study the impact of strategy instruction on the strategies she taught, that is the ones of predicting, selective attention, and inferencing.

The synonym judgement task additionally allowed us to assess the effect of frequency on comprehension (Supplementary material), as the absence of frequency effects is another hallmark of semantic access impairment (Warrington and Shallice, 1979; Warrington and Cipolotti, 1996; Hoffman et al., 2011 a ; Almaghyuli et al., 2012).

This stands in contrast to the lack of effect of strong comprehension differences on viewers' eye movements.

Moreover, the facilitative effect of comprehension on language-related tasks is revealed in simple nativization drills, such as the changing of character and location names into native ones (e.g., when a Japanese English learner replaces "Barack Obama lives in Washington D.C". with "Shinzo Abe lives in Tokyo") [8].

The researchers assessed the effect of the storytelling program on the reading comprehension of the Saudi elementary stage students.

One potential reason for the overall null effect of comprehension on eye movements with Touch of Evil (Welles & Zugsmith, 1958) could be that even though it was chosen for what appeared to be weak bottom-up features, it still guided participant eye movements as much as the Moonraker (Broccoli & Gilbert, 1979) film clip used in the previous study (Loschky et al., 2015).

After the performance and final examination, selected students were interviewed in focus groups to discuss their anxiety levels pre- and post- performance in relation to the text, the performance, as well as the effects of performance on comprehension of the text.